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  • @zacharyhoughton3391
    @zacharyhoughton3391 9 місяців тому +23

    Anglican Catholic Church (G3) here. What some see as “incoherence”, I see, as you state, the ability to draw from the best of the Church Catholic. The great hope in Continuing Anglicanism is remaining true to the faith delivered once for all to the Saints while allowing for a great many background to enrich it from the best of Christianity.

    • @hismajesty6272
      @hismajesty6272 6 місяців тому +3

      I hope Anglo Catholicism picks up steam. Like the rest of the Protestant churches, Anglicanism is under tremendous pressure to abandon tradition and embrace the world. I hope more will follow the path of the Oxford Movement, and rejuvenate traditional Christianity in England. God bless.

    • @TruLuan
      @TruLuan 2 місяці тому +1

      I've considered Anglo-Catholic church, but it doesn't make sense that your guys accept the Catholic Canon (which I agree with, as I am currently Catholic) but deny Purgatory.

    • @zacharyhoughton3391
      @zacharyhoughton3391 2 місяці тому

      @@TruLuan Some do, some don’t, or hold more of an Eastern Orthodox view, or even a more indefinite view (somewhat like C.S. Lewis). It really does vary in definition, but the idea is floating around out there.
      It’s addressed briefly by Haverland in Anglican Catholic Faith and practice, and by Munn in his main book on Anglo-Catholicism. May God give all of us light to see clearly where we can-I hate the separation, and praying that one day reunion may be effected.

    • @neolawyer7110
      @neolawyer7110 2 місяці тому +4

      I was confirmed in the ACC 3 years ago. It is a blessed communion. But it is certainly in schism with the church catholic. In the past month, after years of consideration, prayer, and fasting, I moved my family to the local Ordinariate parish in the Catholic Church. We are being received into full communion next month. We feel like we are finally coming home! Not arguing against ACC, they led me to Christ and His Church!

    • @zacharyhoughton3391
      @zacharyhoughton3391 2 місяці тому +1

      @@neolawyer7110 I understand. God’s blessings on you all!

  • @tradne85
    @tradne85 7 місяців тому +15

    This was truly a beautiful explanation of Anglo-Catholicism. I myself am new to it and just started attending with a parish of the Anglican Province of Christ the King. This video might prove very helpful to explain what Anglo-Catholicism is.

    • @angelathompson4298
      @angelathompson4298 4 місяці тому

      My son and I started attending an Anglo-Catholic church just before Christmas. We've fit in well and my son's asked the priest if he can be confirmed so now waiting for the bishop to find a spot for later in the year.

  • @colekken
    @colekken 6 місяців тому +5

    This was a very good video. Very insightful. I am glad I could see your outlook on these things.

  • @justinsuvoy
    @justinsuvoy 10 місяців тому +5

    Thank-you. This is the direction I am moving.

  • @smjmartialarts1438
    @smjmartialarts1438 6 місяців тому

    Very well said and on point !! Thank you for sharing your invaluable view

  • @brotherluis
    @brotherluis 9 місяців тому +5

    Very good approach and... actually uncommon for Anglo Catholics to make. Thank you of that wisdom!

  • @jonathanwilcock71
    @jonathanwilcock71 Рік тому +30

    Thanks for this. I was due to be confirmed in the RCC but didn’t go ahead for reasons you’ve stated. I’m due to start attending an Anglo Catholic Church, here in the UK, and look forward to applying this into my life. Keep the faith brother

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +9

      Bless you, my friend!

    • @Raverraver9999
      @Raverraver9999 11 місяців тому +3

      Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
      And the other things on the face of the earth are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created.
      From this it follows that man is to use them as much as they help him on to his end, and ought to rid himself of them so far as they hinder him as to it.
      For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our part, we want not health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty,honor rather than dishonor, long rather than short life, and so in all the rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for us to the end for which we are created
      The Catechism of the Catholic Church(CCC), quoting Vatican II, says the following: “God willed that man should be ‘left in the hand of his own counsel,’ so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him.” (1730) God doesn’t force us to seek and love him; it is something that he has left us free to do..
      The word pray is Old English which means "to ask". If you can ask your boss for a raise, and talk to your guardian angels....how much more beneficial it would be to ask the saints in heaven and Mary and Jesus for their prayers and intercession.
      Jesus came to heal the wound of original sin - death.

    • @alhilford2345
      @alhilford2345 9 місяців тому +2

      You can be either Anglican or Catholic, but not both and not half `n half.
      "I would that you were hot or cold, but because you are lukewarm I will vomit you out of my mouth"
      (Apocalypse)

    • @doubtingthomas9117
      @doubtingthomas9117 8 місяців тому +10

      @@alhilford2345
      That’s not what Christ is talking about 🙄

  • @TheAmericanPilgrim
    @TheAmericanPilgrim Рік тому +18

    Great video. I fall into the Anglo Catholic wing within TEC(former Roman Catholic). I definitely have seen the defensive ways of arguing of what they are not from Rome, Orthodoxy and some confessional Protestants.
    I like the more or less openess of the Anglo Catholics of taking what's good from the Catholic world, the Reformed world and to a degree the Orthodox world. Coming from a Roman Catholic background, its helped me settle in to the Anglican tradition.

    • @wesmorgan7729
      @wesmorgan7729 5 місяців тому +1

      You might be interested in our new group, the Episcopal Fellowship for Renewal in restoring TEC.

    • @TheAmericanPilgrim
      @TheAmericanPilgrim 5 місяців тому

      @@wesmorgan7729 Redeemed Zoomer? I was involved previously but went my own way. Thanks but no thanks

  • @thinktank8286
    @thinktank8286 6 місяців тому +1

    Hello recently found your video. I am curious if you would have a video that provides some definition for: "What is an Anglo Catholic?"
    Is that to mean perhaps that you are part if the Anglican church? Or Roman Catholic church?

  • @CYC_JP
    @CYC_JP Рік тому +3

    Great video. This is the first time I watch your videos and I'm interested to know what kind of Anglo-catholic would you describe yourself with? From your video I know for sure you are not a Anglo-Papalist but not too sure about the rest. Prayer Book Catholic? Tractarian? Laudian? Mere Ritualist? Or simply Broad Church?

  • @galacticknight55544
    @galacticknight55544 11 місяців тому +5

    I identify as Anglo-Orthodox myself. I believe in a few Orthodox theological concepts, but disagree with their hardline stances on a lot of social issues.

  • @brucehamilton5609
    @brucehamilton5609 2 місяці тому +3

    I am an Anglo-Catholic in my 70s. The A-C Church is my real home. All that I have heard here accords with my feelings precisely. I live in an isolated place, have no car, and walk with some difficulty. The current state of the C.of E. distresses me greatly, and the more so since our church has been taken over by low church Anglicans. I feel lost and alienated. But what to do? As my life moves towards its close, I am bereft of the comforts and consolations that once I took for granted. I'm in an uncomfortable place.

    • @johnpolitis7929
      @johnpolitis7929 24 дні тому

      @brucehamilton5609 Sorry to burst your bubble but Low Churchmen are the actual minority in the Church of England and Anglicanism in general.
      The majority are Broad or Central Churchmen with Anglo-Catholics or High Churchmen coming in second place.

    • @brucehamilton5609
      @brucehamilton5609 24 дні тому

      @@johnpolitis7929 Most in my part of Kent are lower than a snake's belly. Living 3 years in London recently, I had to travel quite a distance to find an Anglo-Catholic church. I wouldn't know where to go for data. Where did you get yours? From my experience, I'd say low to broad church are the rule...

    • @johnpolitis7929
      @johnpolitis7929 24 дні тому

      @@brucehamilton5609 From reading Anglican Church history books. Since the Oxford Movement, the Low Church is now a minority.
      Most Anglican churches in colonial America used to resemble Presbyterian ones, but since 1833, they in post-colonial America are now the minority and most Episcopalian parishes resemble Lutheran or Catholic ones.
      Most churches do not celebrate using the North End of the Table or have the pulpit or preaching as the main focal point of worship.
      Since the Oxford Movement in England, there are more parishes that are Anglo-Catholic(High Church) or Central Church(Broad Church) than Evangelical(Low Church) Anglican.
      The only place where Low Churchmanship is predominant today is Church of Ireland in Ireland or Northern Ireland or like Sydney Australia that is Evangelical stronghold that forbids the chasuble even for Anglo-Catholics under it.

  • @Anglochog1
    @Anglochog1 Рік тому +9

    As an Anglo-catholic, how do you reconcile certain parts of the 1662 BCP with certain doctrines common in Anglo catholic churches e.g. physical presence or spiritual presence of Christ in the Eucharist? Are you bound to the doctrines within the 1662 BCP or is there flexibility? Asking as an Anglican who is interested in Anglo catholic thought.

    • @redknightsr69
      @redknightsr69 Рік тому +5

      Historically, that book was written during the English civil War period and well before the Oxford movement.
      There have been many attempts to update the "official English BCP" to look similar to the 2019 ACNAs but since there are so many factions and the political correctness factor.
      Newer BCPs have a broader allowance for different theological views

    • @jl63023
      @jl63023 6 місяців тому +3

      Many Anglican churches have evolved from the 1662. For example, the US has the 1928, Canada's 1962, Ireland's 1926, Scotland's 1929 and South Africa's 1954 and they've evolved in a more Anglo-Catholic direction. And many Anglo-Catholics use the Missal as well which is licit given they're based on the BCP as well

    • @frederickjones532
      @frederickjones532 3 місяці тому

      @@redknightsr69The o.riginal 1549 BCP was written under the influence of Zwingli by Thomas Cranmer . See Gregory Dix "The Shape of the Liturgy".

  • @Betrue875
    @Betrue875 6 місяців тому +1

    Sorry I just found your video from 7- months ago! Very good explanation! I agree!

  • @david_porthouse
    @david_porthouse 11 місяців тому +1

    Well to take the first potentially controversial issue, the Filioque was introduced to England at the Council of Hatfield under the presidency of St Theodore in 680. Where do you stand on this?

  • @sssimplydave
    @sssimplydave 11 місяців тому +5

    This was helpful, thank you! I’ve landed in the Anglican tradition, myself being theologically Anglo-Orthodox I suppose, having been influenced by the Eastern theological tradition. However, while I’m drawn to a rich sacramental and mystical theology, I’m ecumenical and can’t accept the exclusive claims of RC, EO or even some Protestant traditions

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  11 місяців тому +2

      We are very close, then. I would also consider myself closer to the East in many respects.

  • @Spiral369
    @Spiral369 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for this video. I am to be confirmed next month after being raised SBC and being away from the church. I knew coming back, I could not choose sides across invisible lines.

  • @Sp00kMa5ter
    @Sp00kMa5ter Рік тому +4

    Finally. I've found someone else where my mind, faith, and conscience dwells. God bless you.

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +1

      Glad to have you here! Blessings!

    • @Sp00kMa5ter
      @Sp00kMa5ter Рік тому

      This Via Media is how we can follow the example of St Paul who thought it expedient that he become all things to all people, that he might win all the more to Christ🙏🏻

  • @philipstapert3517
    @philipstapert3517 Рік тому +9

    Amen! I could easily find a home in Anglo-Catholicism, I've been affiliated with Reformed and Presbyterian churches all my life, but I'm also very sympathetic with other traditions including Roman Catholicism, and I consider myself an Anglican at heart. I have a unique job situation in that I work part time at a Presbyterian church and part time at a Roman Catholic church. I've been involved in music at both churches, and I have good friends at both churches. I love the traditional Catholic liturgy, but it saddens me that they don't allow Protestants to partake of the Eucharist. Lately I have been following St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia on UA-cam, and I love their liturgy. I want to drive 15 hours to Philadelphia just to visit that church!

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +4

      The Anglican tradition, when done well, is truly beautiful!

  • @elizl3322
    @elizl3322 11 місяців тому

    You make some excellent points

  • @thethinplace
    @thethinplace Рік тому +16

    You will see a perfect example of this in Corpus Christi by E.L. Mascall, who was a priest and theologian of the Church of England. I highly recommend the book.
    I also recommend Anglican Dogmatics by Francis J Hall, who was a priest in The Episcopal Church in the early 20th century. Both are the height of Anglican (Anglo-Catholic) theologians.

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +5

      I own and love both of those books! The best!

    • @joshcooldudeyeah
      @joshcooldudeyeah Рік тому +3

      As someone still trying to decide whether Anglo-Catholicism or Roman Catholicism is more suitable for me (I grew up charismatic/Pentecostal), I'll definitely check out these books! Thanks @Jeremy Goodwin and @Jonah M. Saller!

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +5

      @@joshcooldudeyeah I'd also suggest reading "The Petrine Claims" by Richard Frederick Littledale and "A Different Faith" by Edward Bouverie Pusey. Both are some of the best works against Rome from an Anglo-Catholic perspective.

  • @Ogdensnutgoneflake78
    @Ogdensnutgoneflake78 Місяць тому

    Great video, I go to a Church of England church that would be considered high church. I consider myself and Anglo Catholic.
    💯 agree with what you have said. Just subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your vids 👍

  • @samuelswank9653
    @samuelswank9653 9 місяців тому +8

    This video explains why only Anglicanism could have produced CS Lewis and Mere Christianity.

    • @polemeros
      @polemeros 7 місяців тому

      That, alas, was in the past. England itself is being destroyed by massive Third World migration, promoted by the very same people who want to unravel and trash traditional Christian morality. The Great Replacement.

  • @anselman3156
    @anselman3156 8 місяців тому

    Are you aware of the work of Bishop Alexander Penrose Forbes' work on a Catholic interpretation of the Thirty Nine Articles? He was a friend of Pusey and Bishop of Brechin, Scotland.

  • @thoughtfulchristianity
    @thoughtfulchristianity 11 місяців тому +4

    Former Catholic, discerning between Lutheranism and Anglicanism... this video has been very helpful. Thank you, and God bless.

    • @alhilford2345
      @alhilford2345 9 місяців тому +1

      So you left the one true Church?

    • @thoughtfulchristianity
      @thoughtfulchristianity 9 місяців тому +2

      @alhilford2345 so it's this uncharitable inquisition that has led me to question the validity of Rome's claims. God's Church would not be focused on institutional glory but rather the Glory of God.
      Furthermore, a response like this is not how to bring separated brethren back to the fold. I have a ton of love for the Catholic Church, my Catholic brethren, its philosophy, theology, and intellectual heritage. But I can not agree with certain doctrines that I find are neither Biblical nor Traditional.
      Based on your reply, I would not like to engage in a conversation with you, however. And I mean this with the utmost respect, I feel there will be little productivity to be had in it. Based on the sarcasm and inquisitorial response to my initial comment. I can dialogues with all walks of life, but Richard Dawkins, Taylor Marshall, Jay Dyer, James White School of debating, is not edifying nor does it lead to people seeing God's Salvific Grace and the Beauty of His Love. Just because I am leaving the Catholic Church does not mean that I prefer a person to remain an atheist than be Catholic. On the contrary, embrace Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or Protestantism. Find Jesus. Have a relationship with Him. Just because I didn't agree with Catholic Dogma and Doctrine doesn't mean I reject anyone who does agree with it. If people find it easier to find Jesus in Catholicism, then by all means. Once there we can have our friendly disagreements, but still recognizing the all-important truth: Christ is King, Jesus is Lord, He is Risen, He Wants to Save You.

    • @alhilford2345
      @alhilford2345 9 місяців тому +2

      ​@@thoughtfulchristianity:
      My response was not intended to be uncharitable, just a simple question.
      You don't appear to be denying that the Catholic Church is the one true Church, but simply that you cannot agree with some of its doctrines.

  • @gch8810
    @gch8810 Рік тому +2

    I agree that many Protestants define themselves by what they are not. Protestant doctrinal statements specifically define themselves in opposition to other traditions. But Catholicism seems to not define itself solely in opposition to other groups. You may get many Catholics who define themselves in opposition to Protestantism, but Catholic doctrinal statements don’t define themselves in opposition to Protestantism. To your point on Catholicism, Catholicism can often come close to Calvinism and theologians within the Church will admit to at at times.

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +1

      I just think Roman Catholics are far more wary of conceding Protestant points than Anglo-Catholics might be.

  • @michaelhughesdvm
    @michaelhughesdvm 9 місяців тому

    Growth in faith requires struggle, as it does in all endeavours of growth.

  • @Revolver1701
    @Revolver1701 7 місяців тому +1

    Well, that’s new to me. I was a Baptist and later presbyterian and now I’m working my way toward Anglo-Catholicism.
    Would the Episcopal Church in the US fit within you framework? I am geographically far removed from an Anglo-Catholic church.

    • @Booger414
      @Booger414 6 місяців тому +2

      Check out the Anglican Province in America, their website has a parish locator that includes parishes from the Anglican Church in America as well as the Anglican Catholic Church. Those are the most likely to have a parish in any given area.

    • @Revolver1701
      @Revolver1701 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Booger414 thank you very much. 🙏👍
      I found one in Alto Georgia. That about fifty miles from me. Thank you!

  • @Seany_the_kid
    @Seany_the_kid Рік тому +1

    Love where your heart is at my friend❤️💎

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому

      Bless you, bro. I think of you and pray for you often!

  • @keelanenns4548
    @keelanenns4548 2 місяці тому

    a minute and thirty seconds in and I'm already convinced XD. I'm reformed, but have great respect for Confessional Anglicans

  • @BillyBulletPewPew
    @BillyBulletPewPew Місяць тому

    How do Anglo catholics view Greek orthodox?

  • @gch8810
    @gch8810 Рік тому

    So would you say that the physical and visible institution of Christ’s Church on earth is Anglo-Catholicism or would you disagree with that?

  • @johnmckillop3820
    @johnmckillop3820 11 місяців тому +34

    Well said...I just wish I wasn't so embarrassed by the current state of The Anglican Communion. There's a lot of destroy from within going on even in my own AngloCatholic parish of 40 years. They have the pride flag hanging outside of it. It has no business being there. Free for all indeed.

    • @clouds-rb9xt
      @clouds-rb9xt 9 місяців тому

      some are part of the anglo-catholic churc which isn't part of the anglican communion

    • @hismajesty6272
      @hismajesty6272 6 місяців тому +3

      Do not leave. If you leave, you cede ground to those who want to destroy the Anglican Church.

    • @tigernotwoods914
      @tigernotwoods914 5 місяців тому +2

      Anglicanism was literally founded by King Henry the VIII because he wanted to do whatever he wanted. So if you would make a switch then joining Orthodoxy would make the most sense.

    • @margaretdefrias698
      @margaretdefrias698 3 місяці тому +1

      ​not how the Anglican church was founded

  • @jamesryan2227
    @jamesryan2227 7 місяців тому

    I didn’t know you were part of the ACC! :) maybe you’re not but just making a video about it. But I am a part of the ACC :) drop your city and state so I can visit you guys someday. I am in Newport Beach, California at St. Mathews Newport Beach and we are a part of the ACC as well. I just found your channel. Drop a link to your church so I can vist someday! Keep fighting the good fight brudtha 🙏🏼🤙🏼

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  7 місяців тому +2

      I'm in an Anglo-Catholic society in the ACNA. So not the ACC, but I have great respect for them!

    • @jamesryan2227
      @jamesryan2227 7 місяців тому +1

      @@merecatholicity oh cool! Well thanks for posting this video lead me to your channel:) keep fighting the good fight brother! 🤙🏼🙏🏼

  • @catholicgabe2876
    @catholicgabe2876 Рік тому +4

    I was wondering if you've interacted with Ryan Reeves video on the history of the Oxford movement where he appears to...not necessarily go against the Tractarian beliefs, but rather, it appears he says, that the Tractarian movement's claims are ahistorical.

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +3

      I have not. I will have to check that out before I can comment on the ahistorical claim.

    • @catholicgabe2876
      @catholicgabe2876 Рік тому +2

      @@merecatholicity maybe Im miswording his position it’s been a while since I’ve watched the video so don’t quote me haha. Here’s the video link: ua-cam.com/video/UO86whQl6Kg/v-deo.html

    • @catholicgabe2876
      @catholicgabe2876 Рік тому

      But one instance is that he says the position of the Tractarians are not a “rediscovery” of the origins of the Anglican Church but rather a re-interpretation. In other words it appears that he holds to the idea that the Tractarians going above n beyond (or contradict) of what Anglicanism teaches in resources like let’s say the 39 Articles.

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +3

      @@catholicgabe2876 Oh, I agree that the Tractarians reject the Anglican Church as it was articulated by the Reformers in some areas. But I do think Anglo-Catholicism reflects the English Church prior to the Reformation, which I believe is most important.

    • @catholicgabe2876
      @catholicgabe2876 Рік тому

      @@merecatholicity understood!

  • @johnpalomo1688
    @johnpalomo1688 11 місяців тому

    Why is the Screen shot a photo of an Orthodox priest ?

  • @hamontequila1104
    @hamontequila1104 3 місяці тому +1

    ok im a catholic, and im confused. Are these like sub-denomanations?
    Amazing video the camera quality is really good
    also: nice to see a protestant having marian devotion

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  3 місяці тому

      Anglo-Catholicism is a churchmanship within Anglicanism characterized by conservative theology that seeks continuity with the English tradition of the first thousand years of church history.

    • @alhilford2345
      @alhilford2345 3 місяці тому +1

      Confused?
      Of course!
      The devil is the father of confusion.
      "Anglo-Catholic" is not Catholic.
      It is Protestant.

  • @IHSACC
    @IHSACC 11 місяців тому +2

    Excellent summary. Thank you so much. I’m about to be ordained a deacon in the Anglican Catholic Church. I was so glad that you added that last part about our having doctrinal standards. We are not a free-for-all. The seven Ecumenical Councils (which also affirmed a number of local councils), Holy Scripture, and the traditions of the undivided Church are the core of our faith. And what I love about the Councils is that they are focused on our Lord Jesus Christ. Protestants will speak of the need for being “Christ-centered.” The Councils are certainly that. And I agree completely that several of the other Christian churches which you mentioned do often suffer from the “brand name” problem. Certain doctrines e.g. original sin and the atonement (I mention these because they have been deep areas of study for me) are often expressed in such a way that contradicts clear statements of the Fathers and the Councils. Why? Because they are determined to say something (no matter how incorrect) that is different from the Catholics or the Calvinists. They strive to make all of their doctrines to be unique, or have a unique spin over against the “enemy.” But the problem is that in doing this, sometimes rightly correcting an excess, they throw out “babies with the bath water.” Of course this happened a lot at the time of the Reformation. In any case, thank you again for your spot on video. Blessings to you.

  • @TruLuan
    @TruLuan 2 місяці тому

    Which deuterocanonical books do the Anglo-Catholics accept?

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  2 місяці тому

      All that Rome has in their canon.

    • @TruLuan
      @TruLuan 2 місяці тому

      @@merecatholicity So then do Anglican's believe in Purgatory and indulgences then? Those are both pretty clear in the Dueterocaonical books.

    • @CYC_JP
      @CYC_JP 2 місяці тому

      @@TruLuanPurgatory yes, indulgence yes but may be slightly different understanding.

    • @TruLuan
      @TruLuan 2 місяці тому

      @@CYC_JP Could you explain how it may be different? Also do you guys believe in the real presence of Christ in the eucharist?

  • @phillipwoodfin-nb7ud
    @phillipwoodfin-nb7ud Рік тому +1

    Ask a professed Anglo-Catholic, what Bible translation do you prefer? Study Bible?

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +6

      I like KJV, RSV, and ESV. The ESV Study Bible and the Orthodox Study Bible are my go-to.

    • @phillipwoodfin-nb7ud
      @phillipwoodfin-nb7ud Рік тому +2

      @@merecatholicity I have both study bibles and they are great.
      There are no Anglo Catholic parishes near me other than an episcopal church in the next town who’s priest chants the liturgy on certain days.
      My heart is Anglican but the closest thing I have is a Global Methodist church I preach in when the pastors need me.
      I still use the prayer books and pray the rosary.

  • @DannyEastVillage
    @DannyEastVillage 2 місяці тому

    all very well, but the 39 Articles are do not represent the first time that the church has moved on from a position (or positions) based in the worldview and politics of the moment. Some of the Articles are fine, some are combative, and some are unabashed Calvinism with which modern-day Presbyterians are uncomfortable. Point is, we can leave the 39 Articles to rot on the vine, just as the Romans quietly done with the condemnation of Galileo and the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX.

  • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
    @MeadeSkeltonMusic 7 місяців тому +2

    I left the Southern Baptist Church because mine actually went woke. I returned to Anglo Catholicism, as it is like the Episcopal church of my youth but with honoring true scriptures.

  • @michaelkingsbury4305
    @michaelkingsbury4305 8 місяців тому

    High and Dry. Biblical, patristic, traditional Anglican liturgy with an austere ethic for religious art and music, a mild mannered arminianism, and especially reverent. Updated with gentle reforms to liturgy, a full throated acceptace of science, welcoming to all people, meeting our fellow Christians with the kiss of peace, our non-Christian brothers with a loving embrace. I think many would be at home with this, orthodox and traditional yet accepting of all people who profess Christ is Lord, and science ain't wrong. C S Lewis and the Orthodox Church taught me Christianity. Luther and Wesley brought me to high protestantism. The 1928 bcp together with the metaphysical poets, William Law, Hooker the cambridge platonists and good old Queen Bess (and the doctrine of comprehension) brought me, well, to the church of my ancestors.

  • @alasdairgeddes
    @alasdairgeddes 11 місяців тому +3

    I don't understand - if you mix all these traditions then you end up with mud not clear understanding

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  11 місяців тому +4

      The problem is seeing them as all different traditions. That is a sectarian mindset. As an Anglican Catholic, I hold to the truth of the ancient church which includes aspects of the various local expressions.

    • @alasdairgeddes
      @alasdairgeddes 10 місяців тому

      @@merecatholicity So why not just go Greek ( or Eastern) Orthodox since that is the original church? I'm no expert but before there was Protestants there was Catholics and before that there was Catholics and Orthodox Christians and before that there was just Christians, AKA Orthodox Christians. Based on my limited knowledge at least, Anglo-Catholic is a mix of post reformation concepts that tries to somehow undo the reformation without changing anything other than it's outward appearance. I don't mean any offence but correct me if I'm wrong.

    • @henryc7548
      @henryc7548 8 місяців тому +2

      Anglicanism is not a mixed church it’s a traditional apostolic church.

  • @stephaniejames6672
    @stephaniejames6672 4 місяці тому +1

    Martin Luther would have to be a self-made prophet, because I don’t remember any story of Gabriel telling him which pieces to pick and choose from the Bible or what of the Roman Catholic Church to keep or discard when he made a new religion.

  • @LarsPop-Tartus
    @LarsPop-Tartus 7 місяців тому

    I love Roman Catholicism but attend a more Anglo-Catholic Episcopal Church. RC was driving me batty with the endless droning on about contraception. Add the fact priests are not allowed to marry caused me to attend Episcopal services. Like the emphasis on individual reasoning. I sort of miss the statues the gravitas Marion devotions and especially Confession. Hoping the Episcopalians adopt some of these or the Catholic Church reforms itself.

    • @TruLuan
      @TruLuan 2 місяці тому

      You may want to look into Continuing Anglican Churches as the Episcopal churches are liberal and allow un-biblical practices such as female priests

    • @vaudevillian7
      @vaudevillian7 2 місяці тому

      I think some of that depends on the church, in the UK I’ve been to several Anglo-Catholic that are strong on Marian devotion and imagery

  • @albertaowusu1790
    @albertaowusu1790 11 місяців тому +2

    Tell us about Anglo catholic without talking about RCC.

  • @jackshannon777
    @jackshannon777 Рік тому +4

    Amen. This is great. I consider myself a Reformed Catholic, as described by Peter Leithart in The End of Protestantism, but I appreciate much about the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Your argument here regarding true catholicity and ability to reform is probably one of the more stronger arguments for Anglo-Catholicism.
    I'd take issue with the very last thing you said, however. A high church liturgy, of any tradition, is really drawing from 4th century or later developments, which is fine. But an Anglo-Catholic mass is certainly not what was happening in Corinth in the first century, for example. Vestments are development, which is fine. Incense is a development, which is fine. There are all kinds of liturgical developments over time, which is fine. But these developments are not reflective of primitive Christianity. My main source for saying such things comes from an Anglo-Catholic monk, Dom Gregory Dix, and his Shape of the Liturgy.

    • @clouds-rb9xt
      @clouds-rb9xt 9 місяців тому

      incense is described in the book of revelation

    • @Booger414
      @Booger414 6 місяців тому

      In many ways vestments are a devotional aid. I remember way to many years ago, learning about the vestments and what each piece represented, in a historical context. Not that we dwell on any of this during a mass, but all these things come together in beauty and love as an aid to worship.

  • @johnmckillop3820
    @johnmckillop3820 4 місяці тому

    Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness...that's why I'm an Anglo-Catholic

  • @Particularly_John_Gill
    @Particularly_John_Gill 7 місяців тому

    I don’t understand your logic behind that we should be able to question confessions because they are “the words of men”, but we can’t for the creeds and councils?

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  7 місяців тому +1

      The creeds and councils were determined by the ecumenical church. Confessions, while important, were created by local synods and communions, not the ecumenical church. Therefore, they are subordinate to the greater authority.

    • @Particularly_John_Gill
      @Particularly_John_Gill 7 місяців тому

      @@merecatholicity Can the first 7 councils be truly ecumenical if not all are recognized by branches such as Oriental Orthodox? What makes something truly ecumenical?

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  7 місяців тому

      @@Particularly_John_Gill Well, first it has to be consistent with the theology of Holy Scripture, second it must claim to speak for the whole Church, and third (and most importantly) it must be received overtime by the majority of the Church, which all seven have. You don't necessarily need every bishop to affirm the teaching of a council if the above three criteria are met-as I would argue all seven councils met.

  • @jayehm8075
    @jayehm8075 Рік тому +2

    When I left the Reformed Baptist movement after 20+ years I considered Anglicanism but found too many micro synods so I went Lutheran. Wow, the local LCMS is simply amazing, "the western Catholic church purified by the Gospel!" I am not an Augsburg Catholic, orthodox Protestant and catholic Christian.

  • @101Checks
    @101Checks 10 місяців тому

    I’m a Roman Catholic looking into Anglo Catholicism out of curiosity because I love the Anglican Breviary and Anglican Office Book, but why would having doctrinal flexibility ever be a good thing? The average Catholic may have a polemical and political-cultural reason for rejecting Protestant doctrines simply because they are “Protestant”, but the Church declares these teachings to be heretical (and cannot change her teachings), on reasonable and authoritative grounds (which she draws from the apostolic tradition and history), not on a personal perspective alone. Reform can never happen in the fundamentals… otherwise you wouldn’t have historical continuity in the Apostolic Tradition. But how we talk about things, how we understand the fundamentals (but not in ways that contradict the tradition), even how we do very important things like liturgy, can be reformed… but never in contradiction with what was passed down. If you say you don’t have a problem with dogma like you mention towards the end of the video, then that’s there in the Catholic Church. Dogma with serious and open discussion (albeit in a hair on fire kind of way since Vatican 2 and the preceding reform movement) about what can and should change.

    • @EmelineKnits
      @EmelineKnits 3 місяці тому

      You should look into the Anglican Ordinariate in the Catholic Church.

  • @alhilford2345
    @alhilford2345 11 місяців тому

    Could you please define "Roman Catholic"
    How does it differ from regular Catholic?

    • @Lepewhi
      @Lepewhi 11 місяців тому +2

      One in the same. But, just saying Catholic is simpler. The head is in Rome, but we are Catholic.

    • @alhilford2345
      @alhilford2345 11 місяців тому

      ​@@Lepewhi:
      Thank you for the response.
      I wonder if any Protestants will try to answer.
      I'm Catholic too, and I cringe when I hear "Roman" Catholic because I know that there is no such thing.
      It's too bad that this Protestant slur, this insult, which was coined as a derogatory term, along with Papist and RC, has even been adopted by some Catholics.

    • @lindc1070
      @lindc1070 11 місяців тому

      There are Catholics who dont agree with Vatican council too, people like Mel.Gibson who are non Roman but Catholic. There are such parishes who still follow the Latin mass and dont agree with some recent changes made .

    • @CircusofPython
      @CircusofPython 10 місяців тому +3

      Please keep in mind there are non-Roman Catholics who are in communion with the Pope. Example: Chaldean Catholics or Byzantine Catholics. Their rites and liturgy are not Roman or western but they are Catholics united with Rome

    • @adolphCat
      @adolphCat 9 місяців тому +2

      @@CircusofPython Also, in Ancient times Ireland was Catholic but not Roman Catholic as they were for a time an Autocephalous Catholic Church with their own Liturgical Rites and Canon Law. But many thanks for recognizing that Greek Catholic are in Full Communion with Rome but are not Roman Catholic! I have a Greek Catholic friend that is very much offended by the Arogant Roman Catholics that somehow beleive they are the Whole Church. The Pride and Arrogance of Western Catholicism is beyond belief and must be deeply offensive to Christ. The Catholic Church is bigger than the Roman Catholic Church!
      The very Bishops that wrote the part of the Creed, "I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, Church". Weren't Roman Catholic. Mary the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos was never a Roman Catholic. Why do Roman Catholics hate the other Catholic Churches so much that they don't even wish to acknowledge they exist?

  • @david.leikam
    @david.leikam 6 місяців тому

    Anglo-Catholic (APCK) for a more reverent observance of Jesus Christ.

  • @bigtobacco1098
    @bigtobacco1098 4 місяці тому

    Because you can be anything

  • @albertaowusu1790
    @albertaowusu1790 11 місяців тому +4

    In other words you are your own pope.

  • @KevinDay
    @KevinDay 9 місяців тому +1

    Have you ever even tried to begin to listen to James White's actual complaints about the new Thomism movement? Or are you just blindly believing the polemical, straw manning screams from the other side? There's a lot I disagree with White about, but, "He's a dirty Roman Catholic," is a slanderously inaccurate representation of what he has been saying about Thomas.

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  9 місяців тому

      I have, and it shows that he has never tried to understand Thomas' thought or theology at all.

    • @KevinDay
      @KevinDay 21 день тому

      @@crossvilleengineering1238 Someone doesn't have to have a PhD to be capable of speaking words that aren't what someone else is claiming they are saying.

  • @derikdarkwell9200
    @derikdarkwell9200 Рік тому +1

    Lukewarm, pick and choose without taking the bible as a whole. Jesus sacrifice was enough for salvation.

    • @Durnyful
      @Durnyful 9 місяців тому +1

      Just like it says in James eh?

    • @derikdarkwell9200
      @derikdarkwell9200 9 місяців тому

      @@Durnyful It depends if you use it in its context, yes. But first and second Corinthians shows when man play with the Lord's Words and make their own true authority.

    • @Durnyful
      @Durnyful 9 місяців тому

      @derikdarkwell9200 I can't say I find the dichotomy made between faith & works much use. For sure, without faith you cannot please God but without works accompanying your faith you just have mental ascent, no better than the demons!
      For sure, works alone cannot save, faith alone cannot save... the historical view of the early church

    • @derikdarkwell9200
      @derikdarkwell9200 9 місяців тому

      @@Durnyful Faith alone saves as for the thief was the first to make it to heaven, but it is all a matter of the heart. Works bring you just better status in heaven. Only God knows what is in the heart of man.
      Mark left and came back, but Demas no mention he came back. Does anyone think you can lose salvation, meaning that Jesus death wasn't enough?

    • @Durnyful
      @Durnyful 9 місяців тому

      @derikdarkwell9200 picking an exception to try to prove a rule is not sound. Jesus sacrifice is a gift you acquire by faith and then work out with fear and trembling. The aim of Christianity is for us to take on the character of Christ, you can't do that without action stemming from your faith. To make these a dichotomy is error.

  • @William_Farmer
    @William_Farmer 10 місяців тому

    Are gay Anglo-Catholics required to be celibate?

  • @Durnyful
    @Durnyful 9 місяців тому

    Not sure this really flies. How do you judge where 'mistakes' in doctrine have been made? It's just subjective, logic & reason don't cut it in matters of faith. Its worth noting the cultural differences east & west. The church was born in the east so what was originally handed down had an Eastern ethos, hence the emphasis on mystery.
    When I survey the church starting from Pentacost the only one I see that has remained consistent & withstood the winds of politics & culture over the long run (meaning millenea) is the Eastern Orthodox church. RCC has unilaterally changed various aspects, Anglicanism is in very deep waters indeed varying between a liberal faith with no tie to historical christianity at all & the Charismatic wing like its non-denominational counterparts seems to have forgotten that Satan masquerades as an angel of light - all has become subjective with little reference to scripture (despite their sola scriptura claims). I've watched that progress over the last 30 years... a ship adrift. I certainly agree that elitism resulting from espousing one's own choice & passing any kind of judgement on 'others' is very ugly indeed but it seems to be pretty pervasive.

  • @user-dq6kr2gd1y
    @user-dq6kr2gd1y 8 місяців тому +1

    Because of Anglicanism's final Elizabethan repudiation of the authentic priesthood, their ministers are not ordained in the Apostolic priestly succession, and so can not celebrate the authentic Eucharist; the Apostolic succession can not be restored merely by an act of will or wishful thinking, but only by ordination from a valid Apostolic-descended bishop.

  • @PadraigTomas
    @PadraigTomas 2 місяці тому +1

    Or you could join the Ordinariate, and be Catholic.

    • @johnpolitis7929
      @johnpolitis7929 24 дні тому +1

      @PadraigTomas How about preTridentine Roman Catholicism or Medieval Catholicism, not Tridentine Catholicism instead. How about the Sarum Use instead of the Tridentine Mass or the New Mass.

  • @juliannorwich319
    @juliannorwich319 4 місяці тому +7

    I do appreciate your effort to explain Anglo-Catholicism. However, there are a number of deep flaws in your presentation. Most notably, it is the constant refrain of "my faith", "my belief", etc. You have essentially set yourself up as arbiter, choosing what beliefs suit you and which do not. That is an essentially Protestant attitude to the faith, as far from Catholicism as Thomas Aquinas is from Menon Simons. Second, you claim to be able to "reform" your beliefs. Well, if that is the case, why on earth would we believe anything today if you tell me tomorrow it may change, and we shall all need to repent? Either something is true - because it has been revealed through the Church's teaching authority - or it is not.

    • @MisterDevel
      @MisterDevel Місяць тому

      The video is about why HE is Anglo-Catholic. It's his witness.

    • @MisterDevel
      @MisterDevel Місяць тому

      I really do think this is just papist nonsense you're spouting here. So, stop doing that.

    • @juliannorwich319
      @juliannorwich319 Місяць тому

      @@MisterDevel Yes, sir! 😁😁

  • @unkmonk1
    @unkmonk1 Рік тому

    Why all the gay Anglos catholic clergy?

    • @merecatholicity
      @merecatholicity  Рік тому +3

      Why the gay clergy anywhere? Sin, apostasy, etc.

  • @juliawinston9270
    @juliawinston9270 6 місяців тому +6

    So, it doesn't come down to the TRUTH, for you, but what appeals to you. Why would a church that has the full truth want to reform its doctrine? How do YOU know when you have something right or wrong? Is your judgement infallible? Not being supercilious, here, just trying to understand. You seem to profess, as most modern Christians do, a cafeteria notion of the faith. You reject the pope, yet make yourself one. Is King Charles the head of your church?

    • @cyphus5
      @cyphus5 4 місяці тому +4

      By your account, everyone makes themselves pope at least one time when they decide whether or not they will be Roman Catholic. Individual choices will always be made, and this is and always will be the worst argument for Rome. You made the choice at least once, arguably everyday you learn of a new doctrine, dogma, or resolution you feel mixed thoughts against.
      Some Roman Catholics were excommunicated after the new Marion dogmas in the 20th centuries. The Roman Catholic are actually the ones who excommunicated the Church of England, because they didn't recognize the primacy of the papacy. Technically, it was Queen Elizabeth, but same result. Why not treat them the same as the eastern churches? Why such harsh response?

    • @amagnant3736
      @amagnant3736 3 місяці тому

      Was it the Church of England excommunicated or was King Henry the 8th excommunicated and then was made illegal to be a Catholic after that point! King confiscated church’s, monasteries amongst other properties all cause illegal marriage. So he made himself head. Pride and lust!

    • @amagnant3736
      @amagnant3736 3 місяці тому

      @@cyphus5sure individual choices are made all the time, but as a Catholic I can not look on views of another church . I can only follow the Views of Catholic Church. Catholic means universal and universal means only one view, not 60,000 views. Things can be reformed in the universal church but only from the inside. King Henry the 8th was named the defender of the faith by Pope Leo the 10th defending the Catholic Church against the works of Martin Luther.

  • @chrismachin2166
    @chrismachin2166 Рік тому +1

    Council of Trent ,” imputed righteousness is an anathema”.
    You could go through a list of other issues.
    The Roman Catholic Church has a false Gospel.
    We need to preach the true Gospel to these lost people.

    • @alhilford2345
      @alhilford2345 11 місяців тому +1

      A false gospel ?
      Please explain.

    • @chrismachin2166
      @chrismachin2166 11 місяців тому

      @@alhilford2345 Galatians chapter 1.

    • @chrismachin2166
      @chrismachin2166 11 місяців тому

      @@alhilford2345Have you peace with God if you need an Alter Christus to give you your last rites?

    • @Durnyful
      @Durnyful 9 місяців тому

      If only that doctrine had developed in the first 1000 years of the church! I guess the church fathers just didn't understand what they were reading 🤔

    • @chrismachin2166
      @chrismachin2166 9 місяців тому

      @@Durnyfulif you read Christian history ,you would realise your claim is wrong.

  • @daviddragona1853
    @daviddragona1853 27 днів тому

    PLEASE COME HOME TO THE FULLNESS OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH YOUR SYMBOL SERVICES WILL BECOME THE EUCARIST ENOUGH REPENT NOW LISTEN TO THE HEART OF JESUS HE PRAYED WE WILL ONE ENOUGH OF THE FLUFF

  • @b-a-boon
    @b-a-boon 2 місяці тому

    fill in the blanks,,,clue: Leo 13 of Rome
    AB _ _ L _ T _ _ Y N _ L L
    and
    UTTERLY V _ _ _ _